Bucket.



PATBNTED JUNE 25, 1907.

N. M. HELLER.

BUCKET.

APPLIOATION rum) 11113.12. 1007.

[NVENTOR Jlgm 64 1/1327 BY W6 Allorneys 1H: NORRIS PETERS cm, WASHINGTON, n. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed March 12,1907. Serial No. 361,925.

To alZ whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, NOAH M. HELLER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Sharpsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to buckets, and the invention has for its object to provide a sim ple and inexpensive bucket particularly designed for carrying concrete and similar plastic material.

Another object of this invention is to provide a bucket having a 'novel form of drop bottom or lid, together with novel means for normally maintaining the lid in a closed position, and for easily and quickly opening the same.

With the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved bucket, Fig. 2 is a front elevation, Fig. 3 is a bottom plan, Fig. 4 is a side elevation illustrating the lid thereof in an open position, Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the same.

To put my invention into practice, I preferably construct my improved bucket of a tapering metallic shell 1 provided with diametrically opposed trunnions 2, near its upper edges, for a bail or handle 3.

The lower edges of the shell 1 are beveled as at 4, and hinged to one of said edges as at 5, is a lid or drop bottom 6. To maintain the lid or bottom 6 in a closed position, I provide' the shell 1 with diametrically opposed sockets 7, and in said sockets are pivotally mounted the side arms 8 of a yoke 9, the contour of said yoke conforming to the periphery of the shell 1. The arms 8 are formed with eyelets 10 to receive the bent ends 11 of a stirrup 12, said stirrup being pivotally mounted in straps 14 carried by the lid or drop bottom 6.

By referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, the closed position of the dro bottom 6 and the osition of the yoke 9 wi be readily seen, an it will be noted that when the drop bottom is in a closed position, the center of said bottom lies beyond the socket 7, therefore maintaining the yoke 9 in engagement with the shell 1 and preventing the materlal that may be placed in the shell from passing therethrough. When it is desired to open the drop bottom 6, it is only necessary to pull downwardly upon the yoke in which movement of said yoke lowers the drop bottom 6 to the position illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawing.

A particular feature of my invention resides in the fact that the interior of the shell is free from any irregularities that would cause the concrete or plastic material placed within the bucket to adhere thereto, as considerable trouble has been eX erienced in concrete or similar plastic material becoming hardened upon the sides and edge of the bucket and adding considerable weight to the same.

It will of course be understood that my improved bucket is used in connection with a derrick or similar hoisting apparatus, and that a cable or cord can be attached to the yoke 9 for mani ulating the same. when the bucket is in an e evated position.

Such changes in the size, proportion and minor details of construction as are permissible by the appended-claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a dumping bucket, a bucket body provided near its u per end with a bail and having a beveled e ge at its lower end, a bottom hinged to the lower end of the bucket body adapted to fit with said beveled edge and having straps on its underneath face located to one side of the central line of said bottom, sockets carried by the bucket body on opposite sides near its lower end, a bail havmg side arms trunnioned in said sockets, said bail also having eyes, and a support trunnioned in the straps carried by said bottom with its ends engaged in the eyes of said yoke, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

NOAH M. HELLER.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SROLOVITZ, LAURENCE TOOLE. 

